Our History

1980s

With an initial capital outlay of only RMB200,000, (US$25,000) Lenovo's founding chairman Liu Chuanzhi, together with 10 like-minded colleagues, launches the New Technology Developer Inc. (the predecessor of the Legend Group) funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

IBM PCD introduces the industry's first notebook with integrated CD-ROM, the ThinkPad 755CD.

1995

Legend introduces the first Legend-brand server.

1996

Legend becomes the market share leader in China for the first time.

Legend introduces the first Legend brand laptop.

1997

IBM PCD introduces the industry's first notebook equipped with a DVD-ROM, the ThinkPad 770.

1998

The millionth Legend PC comes off the production line. Intel Chairman Andy Grove attends the ceremony, and takes the PC for Intel's museum collection.

1999

Legend becomes the top PC vendor in the Asia-Pacific region.

2000s

2000

IBM PCD ships its 10-millionth ThinkPad notebook PC.

Legend becomes a constituent stock of the Hang Seng Index - HK.

2001

An IBM notebook with an embedded security chip becomes the first notebook certified by the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an industry body setting data security standards.

Legend appoints Yuanqing Yang President and CEO.

2002

Legend's supercomputer, the DeepComp 1800 makes its debut. It is China's first computer with 1,000 GFLOP (floating point operations per second) and China's fastest computer for civilian use, ranked 43rd in the Top 500 list of the world's fastest computers.

2003

Legend announces the birth of its new "Lenovo" logo to prepare for its expansion into the overseas market.

2004

IBM PCD introduces the first notebook with an integrated fingerprint reader.